Multi-year study launched to crack Tampines Changkat’s mysterious cicada woes

It will look into why hundreds of cicadas have emerged there in recent years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Frontiers

Innovative Approaches to Sustainable Tree Crop Management: Exploring the Potential of Biowaste-Derived Materials

The agricultural sector extensively depends on finite resources and materials, including growing media, mulching agents, and mineral fertilizers, the latter ...
Technology Networks

Automated Method Provides a “Snapshot” of a Plant’s Metabolic Effects

Researchers built an automated mass spectrometry and molecular mapping platform to track how human liver cells process ...
Science Friday

Into the Woods, From Chestnut Genetics To Tiny Forests

Genetic research could speed the restoration of the American chestnut tree. Plus, "rewilding" small spaces with fast-growing ...

Killer beetles in the baobabs: researcher warns of risk to African trees

A beetle that lays eggs inside the bark of trees has killed six baobab trees in Oman for the first time. Urgent measures are needed to stop it spreading to Africa.

Gravel pits are Knoxville's new secret to growing trees in urban areas

Gravel pits at Holston River Park are part of Jon Hathaway's mission to level the playing field for neighborhoods when it comes to heat and flooding.
IEEE

An Innovative Solution to Design Problems: Applying the Chain-of-Thought Technique to Integrate LLM-Based Agents With Concept Generation Methods

Abstract: To enhance the application capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in conceptual design, this study explores how to achieve deep integration between LLM-based agents and concept ...
IEEE

A Study to Increase the Performance of FP-Growth Method Using Dimension Tree Technique on Huge Volumes of Data

Abstract: The dominant ARM algorithms viz. Apriori and FP-growth, needs huge resources when the input data is huge. First algorithm is efficient, but it generates intermediate conditional FP trees.